To fight fear-act.
To increase fear-wait, put off, postpone.
David J. Schwartz
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To fight fear-act.To increase fear-wait, put off, postpone.
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Musings on my beliefs on parenting and health. Fertility, Pregnancy and Childbirth Circumcision Breastfeeding and Nutrition Attachment Parenting, Positive Parenting and Gentle Discipline Vaccines Homeschooling and Unschooling Vaccines"No batch of vaccine can be proved safe before it is given to children." I choose not to follow the CDC's and AAP's recommendations regarding vaccinations. I think we are giving too many vaccines at too young of an age. When a baby receives 5 or more vaccines in one day and has a reaction, how can I tell which vaccine is the cause? Most (all?) vaccines contain mercury, formaldehyde, aluminum, phenol, etc. as preservatives. (note: mercury was removed from childhood vaccines in 2001.) The EPA states that no amount of these chemicals are safe to the human body. Yet, we inject them into the smallest of infants. Infants who do not yet produce bile, which is the substance that would help remove these chemicals from an adult body. Childhood diseases do not scare me. I am not relying on "herd-immunity" to protect my child. I want my child to get measles, mumps, chicken pox, rubella and whooping cough. I believe these diseases lead to a healthy immune system. If a child is healthy and well-nourished before they contract a disease and properly cared for during the disease, I believe they will be fine. To give babies added protection, I breastfeed. I will pass on all natural immunities I have. Unfortunately, I was vaccinated for measles and polio, so I cannot help in those areas. I have had mumps as a child and chicken pox and whopping cough as an adult (even though I was vaccinated against whooping cough). Which reminds me of another disadvantage of vaccines - The immunity they (may) provide may not be life-long. Childhood diseases are much worse as an adult. I think these diseases are vaccinated against primarily because they are "nuisance diseases". They require children to stay home from school and parents to stay home from work. When I read about the dangers of disease, it is usually the complications of the disease that are listed as the problem. I think if a disease is treated properly the complications become a null factor. To treat an infectious disease properly, first, DO NOT reduce the fever. Fever is the outward sign that the body is fighting the disease. Second, provide adequate fluids and nutrition. Third, keep body and bedding clean to avoid secondary infection. The Hepatitis B vaccine deserves it's own section. This disease is primarily spread by sexual contact and needle sharing. Not things most (any? lol) babies are engaged in. Babies are vaccinated against it because the CDC wants to get them before they become irresponsible adults. So, instead of instituting a program educating people of the means of transmission and protection from HepB, we inject more toxins into our babies. I am not convinced of the efficacy of vaccines. The stats I have read indicate that the rate of death due to a particular disease was decreasing dramatically before the introduction of the vaccine. I believe higher standards of hygiene and food storage, better access to quality nutrition and the natural cycle of disease had more to do with the decline of infectious disease than vaccines. A huge concern of mine is that there are NO studies with a non-vaccinated population as a control group. I believe we are trading acute illness for chronic illness. The rise in autoimmune disease, asthma, diabetes, allergies, and autism spectrum disorders is alarming and must be addressed. Many people don't understand the mechanism of fever. From How to Raise a Healthy Child...In Spite of Your Doctor by Robert S. Mendelsohn, MD - "When an infection develops, (the) body responds by manufacturing additional white blood cells, called leucocytes. They destroy bacteria and viruses and remove damaged tissue and irritating materials from the body. The activity of the white cells is also increased, and they move more rapidly to the site of infection. This part of the process, called leucotaxis, is stimulated by the release of pyrogens that raise body temperature. Hence the fever. A rising body temperature simply indicates that the process of healing is speeding up." 10 reasons to not vaccinate1- Vaccines have never been tested.2- Vaccines contain toxic additives and heavy metals. 3- Vaccines are contaminated with human and animal viruses and bacteria 4 - Vaccines can cause serious immediate side effects. 5 - Vaccines can cause serious long-term side effects. 6 - Vaccines do not necessarily protect against infectious diseases. 7 - Doctors, as paid salesmen for vaccine products, are no longer considered to be trustworthy arbiters of their safety and effectiveness. 8 - Pharmaceutical companies have paid for almost all vaccine research to date. 9 - Doctors and health professionals rarely if ever report vaccine reactions. 10 - Some childhood illnesses have beneficial aspects and therefore, prevention may not necessarily be in the best interests of the child. 1.There has never been a large scale scientific trial that has compared the short-term and long-term health of babies and children who were given all recommended vaccines, as opposed to babies and children who were given none. Vaccinated children in theory are presumed to be healthier by health authorities, but they cannot possibly know for sure. 2. Virtually all pre-licensing trials of recommended vaccines did not follow up trial participants for longer than 3 to 4 weeks. That was the timescale for the UK trials in the late 80s that gave the go ahead to the MMR there. The biggest trial ever on the DPT only followed up for 48 hours! These time-frames cannot hope to find long-term side-effects. 3. Vaccines are commonly given in batches all at once. Yet there has never been an evaluation of synergistic effects in children given 6 or 7 various vaccines at once(ie. DPT, Hep. B, Polio, prevnar). Vaccines, for example hepatitis B or DPT, are evaluated individually. 4. A utilitarian rationale is usually given by health authorities to justify the many side-effects of vaccination programs: the benefits outweigh the risks. Apart from being based on defective evaluations of risks, this goes against the Nuremberg Code of medical ethics, adopted by the medical profession after WW2 in the light of Nazi doctor's experiments, which held that the rights of the individual to refuse medical treatments, and not be coerced, are more important than the alleged rights of the collective. In short, the ends cannot justify the means. 5. Mortality records reveal that death-rates from childhood illnesses had decreased an average of 90% in the 100 years prior to advent of mass immunization programs in the late 1950s in western countries. Indeed, one of the most deadly diseases for children, Scarlet Fever, decreased the same as the rest, despite there never having been a mass-scale vaccine used for it. Better hygiene knowledge, increased standards of living, and evolving herd resistance can claim most of the credit. 6. Vaccines contain proteins that can putrefy, and therefore must often contain highly toxic preservatives like mercury compounds, antifreeze and formaldehyde. They also commonly contain aluminium, antibiotics, bovine fetal serum, msg, casein, and miscellaneous viral DNA from culture mediums like human embryonic tissues, monkey kidneys etc. Not only are the synergistic effects of compounding toxic substances with unknown foreign proteins, xenoviruses etc. unknown and unevaluated: there is absolutely no will on the part of manufacturers and endorsing health bodies to start doing these evaluations. 7.Vaccines can damage recipients, of that there is no doubt. The US government legislated in 1986 to indemnify vaccine manufacturers from being sued by parents of vaccine-damaged children. This set up a tax-payer funded compensation scheme which has to date paid out billion of dollars, despite being very hard and unfair on claimants. In effect the citizenry pay out for both the vaccines and ensuing array of side-effects, allowing private companies to amass profits free of liability. This externalizing of costs is great for Wall St. but not so great for individual families and society in general which must bear the burden of looking after damaged children. 8. The childhood illnesses are not generally dangerous to children who are well nourished and have normal immunity. Complications and deaths have been much exaggerated by health authorities in order to scare people into compliance. More holistic solutions to lessening disease rates in the vulnerable early years of infancy, and decreasing chances of complications, such as prolonged breastfeeding, use of vitamin and mineral supplementation, good nutrition etc. are not seriously looked at by health authorities because these solutions are not patentable, and therefore not profitable to the giant corporations of the Pharmaceutical industry who have enormous undemocratic influence over not just the medical profession and government departments, but the mass media. 9. Many studies exist showing strong links between vaccines and the inexorable rise of chronic illnesses amongst children and young adults in recent years. All vaccines are capable of provoking inflammation of the central nervous system (brain fevers), autoimmune dysfunctions, and general malaise. Prestigious medical journals, for example, have published studies showing a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, as well as chronic bowel diseases like Crohns and ulcerative colitis. Similar studies have linked the hepatitis B shot with Gulliane Barre, Multiple Sclorosis, blindness, and juvenile diabetes, while the DPT is linked strongly with autism, SIDS, asthma, epilepsy, shock syndromes, cerebral palsy, and learning problems. The oral polio vaccine is an acknowledged cause of polio, and is known to carry the contaminant simian virus no. 40 which is a known carcinogen. It is impossible to keep it and other monkey viruses out of the vaccines since minced up monkey kidneys are the cultural medium for vaccine polio viruses. 10. Vaccines are a quick-fix technocentric profit-driven solution which teaches people to have faith in things outside of themselves. This is unrealistic because without our innate wonderfully flexible and innovative vital energies or immune-systems we could not hope to survive a day. Reductionist medical interventions like vaccines fail to account for the whole of what goes into good health: good nutrition, clean water, maturation of immunity by experience of acute illnesses, love, breastfeeding, freedom from hormone disrupting chemicals etc. In the end good health is the only true immunity. Recommended ReadingThe Vaccine Guide : Making an Informed Choice by Randall NeustaedterImmunization Theory Vs. Reality by Neil Z. Miller Immunizations: The People Speak! by Neil Z. Miller Vaccines: Are They Really Safe and Effective? by Neil Z. Miller Vaccination and Immunization: Dangers, Delusions and Alternatives by Leon Chaitow Immunizations: The Terrible Risks Your Children Face That Your Doctor Won't Reveal by Robert S. Mendelsohn Vaccination: The Issue of Our Times by Peggy O'Mara (Editor) How to Raise a Healthy Child...In Spite of Your Doctor by Robert S. Mendelsohn Vaccinations: A Thoughtful Parents's Guide by Aviva Jill Romm LinksThink Twice Global Vaccine InstituteNational Vaccine Information Center PAVE (People Advocating Vaccine Education) Vaccination News Global Vaccine Awareness League Pesticides and Polio Causes & Co-Factors of Polio |
